Blowback: CNN Pushes Effort to “Ban the Term ‘Fake News'”

CNN is now pushing an effort to “ban the term fake news” after the slogan became synonymous with CNN itself thanks to President Donald Trump.

In a CNN opinion piece written by Hossein Derakhshan and Claire Wardle, who are affiliated with the globalist Council of Europe, the authors argue that the term “fake news” has “become meaningless” and lost its power because politicians (primarily Donald Trump) have hijacked it as a way to “undermine” the media establishment.

The authors decry the fact that many people now believe the mainstream media peddles “fabricated stories” and that information monopolies are being challenged by the ability for “anyone in the world” to have a platform.

Remember when the mainstream media & the Hillary campaign invented the term "fake news" in an effort to discredit alternative & right of center media outlets?

Complaining that “less powerful agents can harm large institutions or established individuals,” Derakhshan and Wardle warn that trust in institutions is declining and that only through intervention at the level of “public education” (ie indoctrination) can this be reversed.

Of course, the real reason media elites want to clamp down on the term “fake news” is because its original intention, to smear and discredit opponents of Hillary Clinton, right of center media outlets, and people who distrust the mainstream media, has completely backfired.

This was illustrated yet again by Donald Trump’s tweet earlier today when he suggested that a “fake news trophy” should be awarded to the network that has been responsible for the most inaccurate reporting.

We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!

“Fake news” was one of many excuses trotted out after November last year to push the narrative that President Trump’s election was somehow illegitimate.

In reality, a major Stanford University study found that “even the most widely circulated fake news stories were seen by only a small fraction of Americans,” and that the most widely believed fake news stories were those that benefited Hillary Clinton.

Fake news had virtually no impact on the election, but the establishment media weaponized the term as part of an agenda to silence and censor voices of dissent, including media platforms, that had opposed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

In addition, mainstream media news coverage in the weeks leading up to the election was 91% negative towards Trump, according to a study by the Media Research Center.

The Podesta emails also revealed how mainstream journalists were completely in bed with the Clinton campaign and even ran stories by them before publication.

The “fake news” narrative has completely backfired on the political establishment and the media because it has acted as a boomerang, showing the mainstream media to be the most consistently dishonest entity of all.

Is it any wonder therefore that the political class is now so keen to retire the term altogether?

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Who the f#$% is CNN or anyone else in the MSM to tell me what to say or what to think? CNN and all of the MSM can go f#$% themselves! They piss and moan because every day the alternative media is calling BS on their propaganda and giving people the truth. Breitbart News is a good source I go to every day.

They use the Goebbels strategy of repetition of a lie. Unfortunately the majority of the public doesn’t know who Goebbels is let alone what he said. Whatever is known is generally proportional with age. The millennials are especially ignorant of history.

I was talking with my neighbor the other day – a recently retired VERY senior IL. state trooper, who is a conservative/libertarian as anyone on his site. He said neighbor down the road (I don’t know him) had his parents escape from East Germany just before their collapse, and he was a kid. This guy is a socialist, and even worse, had ZERO idea what Nazi (NSDAP) stood for (National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party, which adopted explicitly socialist planks at it first convention, Munich, Feb. 1920.

I get it that the millennials are clueless Bernie Sanders supporters, but REALLY!! For this guy to be that clueless is both at once staggering, yet completely understandable (and thus even MORE staggering) given old Herr Goebbels approach (or for that matter, Edward Bernays (Freud’s nephew, 1891–1995), who was a major leader in US propaganda, and stated

““The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” —Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Goodreads.com says he “pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed “engineering of consent.” During World War I, he was an integral part of the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI), a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise and sell the war to the American people as one that would “Make the World Safe for Democracy.” The CPI would become the blueprint in which marketing strategies for future wars would be based upon.”

The war for the minds of the people uses disinformation and discredits reality. Often entertainment has more reality than official news. Movies feature significant truth which because of its venue intentionally marginalizes its content. The public says, “Oh you seen that in a movie” thus relegating its content to fantasy. The movies “Enemy Of The State” and “JFK” are two examples. TPTB depend upon an ignorant, complacent public easily swayed because they have no bedrock knowledge base to intelligently challenge the official narrative.

Typical leftist “leader”: Sex, drugs and corruption IN the halls of Congress. How nice.

Congressman Has Sex With Staffer, Sues Her
November 27, 2017/by Luke Rosiak
Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green had sex with a staffer who he said was a drug addict and then sued her when she threatened to go public with claims she suffered a hostile work environment, saying he “will not be extorted or blackmailed.”

Lucinda Daniels, his onetime district director, claimed she suffered a hostile work environment, claimed sexual harassment and demanded $1.8 million. Green sued her, saying she was using their sexual relationship to shake him down at the behest of other unnamed conspirators.

“Daniels has threatened to go public with her complaints if the Congressman does not per her money. Green has done nothing wrong and refuses to pay ‘hush money’ just for political expediency. Green will not be extorted or blackmailed by Daniels. He will not be the victim of a shakedown by Daniels and her agents. Green demands vindication of his actions and now sues Daniels for declaratory judgment relief relating to her workplace allegations and her quest for money,” documents Green filed in federal court in 2008 say.

Daniels also unknowingly dialed the congressman while she was allegedly buying cocaine. Green submitted the voicemail, now sealed, as evidence in the case…. (more filth in full article)

I find modern mainstream media to be a complete waste of my time, it is biased to the core and not objective at all. The fact that all they have done is 24/7 bashing of the duly elected president tells of the character of those who run the networks and those who supposedly diseminate the news,
I have stopped paying any attention at all to mainstream media, can no longer rely on it for truthful objective reporting, and never will again. Total waste of time and quite frankly is irritating beyond anything short of a noismaker toy some retarded relative gave your kid for their 3rd birthday,,,
Trump wasnt elected because he was the best, he was elected because he was a giant middle finger to the establishment

In the mid 1990s Bill Clinton (who else) signed into law an act that in effect allowed a de-facto monopoly of the media. Previously the government learned from Vietnam and severely restricted news from combat zones. Fortunately the Internet was coming into common use negating much of the censorship potential they were facilitating.

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